Search Exposes Hackers
September 22, 2014
Hackers get their boldness from their anonymity and it encourages them to do malicious acts. Engadget has an interesting article that will strike fear into hackers: “Search Engine Turns The Tables On Hackers Exposing Their Info.” Indexeus is a search engine that shares hackers’ information in the same kind of data breaches they create. The search engine’s original purpose was to force the hackers to pay one dollar for every record they wanted to purse from the engine’s index. It is funny, because they had to pay safety money.
Indexeus was accused of extortion, so they had to waive that rule. The new law in the EU might mean something new for the hackers:
“Indexeus founder Jason Relinquo tells security guru Brian Krebs that blacklisting is now free due to the EU’s “right to be forgotten;” he can’t charge for a service that’s supposed to be gratis. That purported desire to obey the law is rather odd when the indexed content is illegal by nature. Look at it this way, though — if any targeted hackers are having second thoughts about their paths in life, this may be the excuse they need to make a clean break.”
Get a clean record? It could work, but it can also be used to cover their tracks. It still is wonderful that search is being used for the powers of good.
Whitney Grace, September 22, 2014
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